I’ve got three doctorate degrees in health/medicine and I’ve published quite widely. I think that if doctors had to take a course somewhere in their education about logic, then we wouldn’t see so much stupidity in medicine and public health.
2:29 "Two Concepts of Liberty" was the inaugural lecture delivered by the liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958 - but Nietzsche clarified this 80 years previously in genealogy of morals when he talked about master slave morality.
This was very helpful to explain why I am drawn to the Catholic church even though it seems absurd. This description of Eckhart's theology is exactly how I experience God.
I find the ecstasy stuff very strange with female Catholic saints 😮. Like i dont see this with Orthodox saints. Not in a sex kind of way ,the " Jesus pierced me with His arrow stuff". Anyway i dont mean to demean her or Catholics
She , Saint Teresa would have been offended to have a translation to all spiritual seeks outside the Catholic spirituality for she believed there was no salvation outside Catholic Church . She died saying she had been a faithful daughter of Catholic Church so to work and promote a “loose” translation is a big betrayal to such a great Catholic Saint 😢
Thanks for your insight. At school conference, a Chinese American scholar who writes on Eastern philosophies told me I ought to look into Chuan tsu. Because I'm already into a Merton this seems like a good place to start.
Thank you very much for this work. I can feel that you actually apply in your life this things, and this makes it more than a lecture, but a spiritual guidance. Clear, calm, and humble , very beautiful 🙏
Why are you perpetuating a false portrait of Meister Eckhart? The portrait shown at the beginning is not that of Meister Eckhart - rather, it is that of Fra Teodoro of Urbino. It was painted around 1515 by Giovanni Bellini. The original painting now belongs to a museum in London, but is on loan to the National Gallery, also in London.
Many thanks - I’m glad to know this and was simply unaware. Surely there are few purported depictions of Eckhart, so far as I’m aware, but I’d thought this was one of the few potentially accurate ones. Thank you for commenting! I’ll make a point to look into this.
@@labyrinthsideas Thank you for your extra quick response. I came across the shown portrait when looking for some art prints and had to do a double take. If you look on the National Gallery's website, you will see an image of the original. I cannot find any suggestion as to how the attribution arose. I think that's probably a lost cause.
For sure. I don’t get to post here as much as I’d like, but certainly I want everything to be accurate! That being said, Eckhart’s legacy seems to be oddly plagued by inaccuracies; too often, supposed quotations from him turn out to be liberal paraphrases of a line that in context has a different meaning. So it goes. Will indeed look into this matter of the image, though, when time permits, appreciated.
@@labyrinthsideas There is an 'authentic' (accepted by art historians) image of Eckhart, painted by Andrea di Bonaiuto. When you compare the real image of Eckhart to the false one of Fra Teodoro, it shows huge differences. His real image looks so gentle and warm.
@@SolveEtCoagula93 Very useful indeed - and yes, the severity of the image in the thumbnail has always been off-putting. Is this the one you have in mind by chance? christianhistoryinstitute.org/storage/PkGdn3zSWkWUnUNdSEoZX1hv0hySvN68EpgInqmv.jpg
I have been experiencing for a while like Jesus has abandoned me in pray...I pray and feel like iam praying to the wall..I use to feel his presence very strongly before...and I have such a longing for him that I just cannot understand.
Alice cooper said Jesus fixed him. Why should I follow this Lady if Alice Cooper gets to keep all his possessions and career? Jesus said he could. Who needs her?
If you give a good economist data on supply and demand for a good or service, he or she can tell you what the price of that good or service is with a graph. Wouldn't that alone suggest that any idea of a natural order would only be possible through free enterprise?(try arriving at that price when price is controlled by government). Colonialism, which was the birthplace of the corporation and the public private partnerships, endeavor(ed) to disrupt this natural order through politics/narrative. This phenomenon arises due to both greed and the risk of failure which is inherent to free enterprise. That risk of failure is an important part of God's presence in the system that both protects the environment and his children. People are apart of the natural order and that order can only be achieved when government is limited to the role of protecting universal god given rights and freedoms in a free enterprise system. As soon as government accepts a special interest and operates on its behalf (however flowery the narrative) the natural (Gods created) order is disrupted. And should it be surprising to us that Gods solutions are simple and easy to understand? I encourage Catholics to concern themselves with such matters. But be careful who you align with because the devil operates in the world largely through deception. And deception often is a flowery narrative most of my neighbors don't follow.
Excuse me, teacher. What is the name of the book used as reference throughout this series? I heard you say Hauser but not what book. Thank you in advance!
So grateful to have found this series! I recently finished this book (free as an audiobook on Spotify for premium users) and didn’t want it to end. Thank you for letting me ruminate on it some more!
I love this. I was turned off from Christianity as a child because it's purpose was never explained and I was forced to sing hymns and pray everyday at school by law. I am now on a non-dual path, having arrived at it through an attraction to Eastern teaching such as advaita vedanta. But now, I am beyond any traditions and understand that I have to go beyond all concepts etc. My teacher refers to "oneness". And here's this video doing the same!!! Thank you.
Mind-blowing, isn't it? My path has been very similar. I recommend highly T.S Eliot's Ash Wednesday as a beautiful poetic bridge between Eastern sensibilities and Christianity. Namaste.
I decided to watch this on a whim before delving into Eiseley for the first time by reading the Library of America box set of his works. Your analysis and commentary put me in the right frame of mind to get started. I hope to circle back and watch again after I finish. Thanks for posting this. Excellent work.
Anthropromorphisizing elements of material reality, is Satanic and idolatry actually. And by now many know about the club of Rome and climate alarmism being a useful trope to motivate the actions of the many for the profit of the few, having nothing whatsoever to do with the environment. Using sophistry and rhetoric to attempt to cover the fact that technocratic transhumanism is Satanic One world order/ one religion, Etc, death cult. Let's just say it's weak at this point. Way too many Christians have become awakened to the luciferian goals. Jesus is King. The Bible spoke about all of this... as for currency yes its all fake, Read G Edward Griffins - Creature from Jekyll Island, on the creation of the federal reserve banking system. 👍✌️
It's like this: No consciousness chooses its thoughts, its preferences, its will, what it feels moment to moment. I know that may sound crazy (no one talks about it) but bear with me. We can't make ourselves love by saying "I love you." We can't 'choose' a thought without just having it. We do learn, thank God. But it's not up to us when we learn: we don't rearrange our neurons to see finally "Ah-ha," and even if we did, it wouldn't be up to us to have the desire TO rearrange our neurons. Just like if we could change our will - that's really still just will presenting itself. But 'free will' or determinism, either way a consciousness just feels "I want that" - whether 'that' is something basic, something wrong perhaps, or your grandest idea of communing with God. And this means we can't choose to have faith either. We don't choose anything. And yet we're stuck suffering the consequences, and our own judgment, and the judgment of others. We never escape our conscience, even if it evolves somewhat over time. We always judge, even if it's in saying "Judgment is bad." That's still a judgment, oh cult of tolerance. So, we're stuck, doing and judging and feeling and hoping to learn. But we never know what we'll think of next, and our next thought might change our life. That's part one. Part two is: you're not in charge of anything but you can learn to place your mind on the sensation of the thing you hate most: fear/pain. Fear, anxiety, anger, guilt - any/every feeling that drives you "up the wall," are really all sensations of types of pain in your body. Just like thoughts, you don't choose sensations either. But seeing it's a sensation is great: no longer are you battling the idea of 'fear,' rather you see it's a physical thing. Then spend time (every moment you can remember) putting your awareness on all sensation, but especially fear - and you'll realize you have all these pockets in your body that are physically tense (like you're clenching in expectation of an incoming punch), in an effort to not feel something you're worried about, some conversation you're scared to have, some insecurity you're dealing with, or maybe just because you're hungry. This tension keeps you from being your relaxed, best self. It makes you overly sensitive and frustrated that you can't seem to get it to go away. In taking time and looking at what your body feels (in as many moments and situations as you can) you see how much the things you do are steered by this pain. This isn't an "Oh the pain!" sob story, and it's certainly not to make you feel like a victim. Because the point is: if you start to look straight at it, accept it: good things start to happen. But you have to admit it's there first, find it, accept it, and admit it's not up to you if it comes or goes. Versus what we do normally: grit, hoping the grit will cause the pain to go away. Rather, try a new habit. If you can dare yourself, look straight at it. We seem to be able to get those tense tissues and muscles to relent by simply holding our minds on them. Aka, find the anxiety (the vague pain of chronically tense muscles anywhere in your body, but especially behind your eyes, your mouth, voicebox, sternum, abdomen) and put your mind on it (the reverse of what you try to do whenever you 'take your mind off' pain). Much pain seems to be somewhat appeased (?) by just looking right at it. You watch those muscles/tissues physically relent, even just for a moment, and see yourself act (in those moments) without the hindrance that was there before, clouding your ability to be the gregarious, at-peace you. Part three: We've progressed far enough with science to see that as things get smaller and smaller we never actually find the 'stuff,' but rather smaller and smaller patterns of form. Take an atom, for example. It's actually protons and neutrons and electrons. There's no 'shell' of the atom. It's just those smaller things buzzing round making the form we'd call 'atom.' But then take the smaller things (the neutrons, protons, electrons)... they're not actually 'things' either, no shell. But they're smaller 'subatomic particles' which are themselves smaller patterns and/or energy. There's never any 'stuff,' just pattern. It hit me: Space is 'the thing' and matter is when that thing is bunched, or energized, or 'in form' or 'discernible' or 'interactive.' Imagine a napkin laid flat on a table. Now, pinch the napkin somewhere so it sticks up, like a nipple. We recognize the 'nipple,' but in truth it's still just napkin. In the same way, apace is like the napkin and 'matter' is like the pinched section of the napkin. But it's all napkin. It's all God. And thus to it explains His will is always being done ("Thy will be done" means it's your will, God, and not "Gee God, I hope you get your way."). But this will includes our mistakes, and the fact that they're mistakes (they're not suddenly good), but also the consequences and the suffering and our learning. And in seeing that absolutely nothing is in control we see also the real reason for faith: it's all God's will and there's nothing 'to be done.' Aka, you can't stop yourself from being you, but you've no idea what that actually means about who you'll be in each next moment. It's up to God. The ego is the illusion. It's Lucifer saying "I can do better," and God saying "Yes, Lucifer, but who put that idea in your mind?" It's all God. Even when you think it's not. Even when you've got no faith. And there's still morality. And consequence. I don't know about eternal Hell, other than life is hellish (to varying degrees) so long as we forget our place. We are obeying but we think we're not. It's just that our obeying includes the bad stuff too, and we can't fathom that this conundrum doesn't disprove God, or the Good, or our own 'accountability' in it all. But it doesn't. There's still God, and morality, and the consequences (though no one knows precisely what those are, either). Just breathe and have faith, since we're not in control.
There is no "us" as human beings. There's just oneness manifesting as human beings. "You" are oneness. Therefore, the human being is just doing its spontaneous thing and oneness is aware of it. Science has shown that the body carries out actions before the thought "I'm going to do this or that" takes place. i.e., something just happens (e.g., I get up to make a cup of tea) and - after the fact in a fraction of a second - the ego creates a story as to why it was the ego doing it! Re science - I'm a scientist. I have recently realized that science cannot explain ANYTHING. It uses words but can't actually explain what any of the following very fundamental things are: time, space, energy, consciousness, matter. What it can do is explain how these unknowable things will likely behave in our perception. I have now arrived at the point of "unlearning" or "unknowing". I'm done with trying to understand that that cannot be understood. Instead, through direct experience, I want to know (not understand) what is true.
@@paulward2333 makes me smile. It's all I've been able to think about since it clicked intellectually nearly two years ago. We're a ball of tension, afraid that we might not be able to protect ourselves from whatever happens next. This state of being isn't up to us, but it has consequences (the pain of life is why you're here). Seeing that fundamentally what happens next isn't up to us isn't an escape from the pain: it's acceptance. It's is a freedom I never thought I'd understand. It's not no-holds-barred. There are always consequences. It's something else. It's not a child's idea of 'what if I was God.' It's realizing that if God has thoughts, He doesn't choose them either. Nothing could 'choose it's own will,' when you just admit how it is to be conscious. Admit it: the lack of control. And then you see why "The truth shall set you free."
